fascis

Latin

Etymology

From fascio (“to bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European, Cognate with Ancient Greek φάκελος (fákelos, “bundle”), Old English bæst (“inner bark of the linden tree”), Welsh baich (“load, burden”), Middle Irish basc (“neckband”).

Noun

fascis (genitive fascis); m, third declension

1. A fagot, fascine; bundle, packet, package, parcel.
2. A burden, load.
3. (usually in plural) A bundle carried by lictors before the highest magistrates, consisting of rods and an axe, with which criminals were scourged and beheaded.
4. A high office, like the consulship.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	fascis	fascēs
genitive	fascis	fascium
dative	fascī	fascibus
accusative	fascem	fascēs 1
ablative	fasce	fascibus
vocative	fascis	fascēs

¹ May also be fascīs.

Synonyms

• (bundle): sarcina
• (fascine): crātis
• (burden, load): sarcina

Derived terms

• fasciātim
• fasciculus

• fasciger
• fascīna

Related terms

• fasciculāria

Descendants

• Asturian: feixe, feix, fexe
• English: fascism, faggot, fagot
• French: faix
• Galician: feixe
• Italian: fascio

• Old Portuguese: feixe
• Portuguese: feixe
• Romanian: fascie
• Spanish: feje, haz

See also

• fascia

References

• fascis in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879